+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Constructing A Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and explain the relationships within a food web. They use index cards to glue pictures of producers and consumers. On the back of the card, students name the organism, list the type of biome in which it is found.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Web of Life - Alaska

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research Alaska, then construct their own food web after researching a habitat of their choice.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Web of Life

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars describe the importance of having a balance ecosystem. After a brief lecture, students give an explanation of the properties of an ecosystem. They create a web, using yarn which shows how the various members of the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Regions and Habitats

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the different habitats found in the seven regions of the United States. In this ecology lesson, 4th graders write an essay about how humans affect the ecosystem and vice versa. They discuss how changes on one...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Design a Plankton

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore animal and plant adaptation.  In this ecosystems science lesson, students view websites to gain information about plankton and its  interdependence within ecosystems. Students identify ways in which plankton has adapted...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Arctic Food Web

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research animals found in the arctic. They discuss what living things need in order to survive and where they get their food. Students discuss the difference between producers and consumers and create a food web for animals in...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Webs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students recognize interdependence in a food web by using yarn and notecards to create a food web and discussing what would happen if one of the organisms from a certain trophic level is removed.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

River Venture

For Students 7th - 9th
In this food web worksheet, students color 4 animals and put them in the correct spot on a food web. They answer 3 related short answer questions. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discovering New Species

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify animals observed by Lewis and Clark while evaluating the animal's habitat and describing the animal's behavior. Students construct a food web mobile to illustrate the animal's position in the food web in the 19th...
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Animal Feeding Strategies

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this food web study worksheet, students record how 24 animals get their food. Each animal should categorized as a forager, grazer, filter feeder, parasite, predator, or scavenger on the graphic organizer.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forest Food Web

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore the elements of a forest ecosystem. They examine the elements needed to form a forest food web. Students construct and describe food webs that include nonliving elements of the ecosystem.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animals and the Food Webs that Love Them

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners study the animals that Lewis and Clark would have encountered.  In this animals lesson students study the food web and how human populations have affected them. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Webs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners research what food is eaten by the following organisms: penguins leopard seals, krill, elephant seals, petrels, albatross, fur seals, squid, insects and grass. They make a food web using the data they have gathered.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introducing Habitats and Biodiversity

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify habitats in Arizona. Theys define and illustrate a food web, and explain the importance fo biodiversity.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Trophic Levels and Food Webs

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology activity, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to trophic levels and food webs. There are 27 biology terms located in the word search.
+
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

A Salt Marsh Ecosystem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What a web we weave. Pupils use yarn as the primary resource to create a web depicting the intricacies of a salt marsh ecosystem. They participate in a question and answer session, which leads to an in-depth facilitated discussion about...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring Ecology

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the basics of ecology through numerous hands-on and relevant activities. They participate in an online food chain demonstration, which explores food web dynamics. They dissect owl pellets, examine the prey's bones, and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Web Mystery

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students describe typical marine food webs, and explain why food is generally scarce in the deep-ocean environment. They discuss reasons that seamounts may support a higher density of biological organisms than would appear to be possible.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ecosystem Interactions in Refuges

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, using national parks as models, illustrate the energy flow in ecosystems. Working in groups, they use murals, flow charts, or other visual displays to record their findings. Students represent the food chains and webs...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food webs and Energy Flows

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students become familiar with food chains.  For this food chains lesson, students understand that as consumers eat other consumers energy is passed. Students understand the vocabulary associated with food chains.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Macaroni Lab

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Pupils are given an introduction to the "ecosystem", what factors make up an ecosystem (biotic factors, abiotic factors, food chain, producers, consumers and decomposers) and how those factors interact.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

it's Lonely At The Top

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the differnences between food producers in food webs and food consumers in food chains. Behavioral choices of primary and secondary consumers such as herbivores, vegetarians, carnivors, and omnivors are analyzed.
+
Lesson Plan
Desert Museum

Daisy Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here's a fine lesson that combines poetry with life sciences. Learners carefully listen to a poem that's all about a food chain. As the poem is read, learners name the producer, the herbivore, the carnivore, and the omnivore. Lots of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Illinois Wild

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify different animals native to Illinois. They research a specific animal to study more about its characteristics, examine what makes a habitat, and recognize the difference between a food web and food chain.

Other popular searches